Hiring: Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute Company: Datadog Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 10:44:54 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Datadog, GitOps, Kubernetes, SaaS, Serverless About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope. Required Skills: •Datadog’s Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on. Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected. •As a Staff Product Designer, you will help define that direction and lead the work from early problem framing through shipped product. You will partner closely with product and engineering, bring a high level of interaction and visual craft to complex workflows, and help raise the quality of design across Modern Compute. •Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product. •Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery. •Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost. •Simplify complex technical concepts without removing the detail and control expert users need. •Work closely with product and engineering leaders to identify the right problems, make decisions clearer, and connect work across multiple teams. •Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases. Qualifications: •You have 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope. •You bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences. •You have led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome. •You can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work. •You are comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process. •You communicate complex ideas clearly and can build confidence in a direction across design, product, engineering, and senior leadership. •You think beyond an individual feature and can create systems or patterns that work across products and teams. •You balance long-term product direction with hands-on execution and attention to detail. •You actively mentor other designers and help improve the quality of work around you. •You can design and build code-based prototypes using AI and coding agents, or have demonstrated the ability to quickly develop that capability. Compensation: •$204,000 - $255,000 / year •Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!